bravo
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"No, I stopped," said Meloni, prompting EU Commission chief Ursula von der Leyen to cheer "bravo".
From Barron's ● Jun. 17, 2026
When Maxey—and really, bravo for Maxey, who is the soul of this Philly team—put Game 7 with a string of fearless drives, the statement was Lazarus-like.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 4, 2026
So bravo to you for taking this on.
From MarketWatch ● Mar. 19, 2026
"There was a lot of negativity about the Seine before the Olympics. At least they have tried; they have spent £1.2bn on this clean-up project so bravo to them for doing it," Pardoe said.
From BBC ● Aug. 9, 2024
The bravo curled a lip, whilst the fellow with the quill j chuckled at his insolence.
From "A Dance with Dragons" by George R. R. Martin
The bravoes no longer caused him much uneasiness now that he felt confidence in their master.
From The Betrothed From the Italian of Alessandro Manzoni by Alessandro Manzoni
A chorus of laughter and bravoes greeted his feat.
From The Missioner by E. Phillips (Edward Phillips) Oppenheim
He considered, in haste, whether between the bravoes and himself there were any outlet from the road, and he remembered there was none.
From The Betrothed From the Italian of Alessandro Manzoni by Alessandro Manzoni
With the garrison of bravoes which he kept at the castle he could defy an army, which he would have crushed in the valley beneath, before an individual could reach the summit.
From The Betrothed From the Italian of Alessandro Manzoni by Alessandro Manzoni
The antechambers, the courts, and the street, were crowded with servants, pages, and bravoes.
From The Betrothed From the Italian of Alessandro Manzoni by Alessandro Manzoni
So what if our bravos are slightly muffled by masks?
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 23, 2021
Chicago is “a journalistic Yellowstone Park, offering haven to the last herd of fantastic bravos that once roamed the newspaper offices of the country.”
From Washington Post ● Oct. 28, 2016
And these—he pointed to some huge black bulls—were Percy’s toros bravos.
From The New Yorker ● Apr. 13, 2015
I can only assume the the few bravos were ironic.
From The Guardian ● Aug. 3, 2012
Celia’s decision wins her both bravos and more full-throated squabbling.
From "Dreaming in Cuban" by Cristina García
At a recital a few days later, chastened Muscovites bravoed her back for five encores.
From Time Magazine Archive
At the curtain, a shower of roses and confetti rained down from the galleries, and the house bravoed on for half an hour of curtain calls.
From Time Magazine Archive
After the festival's opening concert last week, a capacity audience of 2,200 stamped, clapped and bravoed in a demonstration that verged on Beatlemania.
From Time Magazine Archive
Years passed and at the Metropolitan Tenor Martinelli continued to take second place to some more bravoed figure.
From Time Magazine Archive
If they keep hysteria at a distance for a few hours, they are bravoed from one end of the Empire to the other.
From An Ocean Tramp by William McFee
He was visibly furious when the soloists in Otello tricked him by going offstage by another exit and hiding until Toscanini was forced to face the bravoing audience alone.
From Time Magazine Archive
Nearby, on an old-fashioned bed topped by a canopy, sat bravoing Authoress de Beauvoir.
From Time Magazine Archive
But, once there, the power and diamond-hard brilliance of his playing had the studio audience bravoing between movements, despite NBC's standing request to the audience not to applaud until the work is finished.
From Time Magazine Archive
There was a burst of loud bravoing and clapping.
From Mortal Coils by Aldous Huxley
